FEE intensity

Colleges & Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Sorry to keep harping on a point, but I had a few more questions about the FEE I was hoping to get help with. I'm taking the June 2-5 one, but I am under some major time constraints as I am doing it alongside work for a research launch I'm doing with NASA as well as graduation, preparing for a 6-week India trip, college, and NFL nationals. Given my time constraints, I was wondering about how much we are expected to write for the FEE<em>. I just accessed the readings and was a bit staggered by the sheer bulk of them. I understand that everyone has a different style of writing, but just on average, about how much do people write for each essay? Is it like a pair of 15-page</em>* papers, or more like a pair of 3-4 page-ers? How much time would you conjecture people spend on them on average? How intense is the grading? etc...</p>

<p>Thanks for any help,
sran</p>

<p><em>In addition to just wanting to know, I'm also trying to develop insight into how I'm going to schedule myself/how much I can sleep in order to do a decent job on the FEE.
*</em>Times New Roman 12-font, 1.5 spaced</p>

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<p>what? aren't there limits? I could have sworn it had to be less than 1000 words.</p>

<p>so, what's that... 3 pages double-spaced?</p>

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<p>Oh my god. I log in and see the stuff. There's like 50 pages of "reading"...holy crap.</p>

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<p>Oh man... I am feeling so pressed on time right now... The FEE is 2-3 page double spaced essays with about 30 pages of reading, and I still have a month left in school (with final projects due soon). I'm really thinking about deferring it until later at this point.</p>

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<p>How can you do that? I thought that once you committed, you committed.</p>

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<p>I don't think I can, now that I look at it :(</p>

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<p>if you looked at the readings, and you don't turn in an essay, you take the FEE in person at orientation.</p>

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<p>I just started my essay...man, easy to read but hard to write...</p>

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<p>I wouldn't worry too much about the FEE, if you're worried about it, you will probably pass. The people i know who failed didn't take it seriously. The grading didn't seem too bad either. Even if you fail, you just take an easy writing class the first term that counts as a CI-H, so it in no way puts you behind.</p>

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<p>Blah I hate essays. <em>sigh</em> Oh well. </p>

<p>Especially summary essays. I haven't been asked to write a summary since I was like, 12. We ALWAYS have to analyze. <em>shrugs</em> I guess it's a good skill, but it's weird.</p>

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<p>I like the argument...summary = killing me!
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The people i know who failed didn't take it seriously. The grading didn't seem too bad either

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wow...you are kidding me, right? After all, it's MIT = the hardest academics grading system ever!</p>

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<p>I didn't know that applied to MIT english. But okay.</p>

<p>God this thing is annoying.</p>

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<p>How bad can it be if you don't pass the FEE? I mean, are the writing classes so bad?</p>

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<p>Haha, no, actually people usually like the CI-HW classes quite a bit. Apparently they're easy and fun.</p>

<p>People freak out about the test for two reasons: 1) They do not yet understand how not to freak out about a test (something which will be remedied soon, I promise), and 2) They want to take a certain HASS or HASS-D and don't want to be forced to take the CI-HW.</p>

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<p>Nice points, in my case, I'm doing the essays, but I'm not stressed at all about them. If I don't pass the FEE, it means that I need the class, which is OK I guess :)</p>